I recently needed to publish a Git repository to an Apache server for simple sharing with a collaborator. There are a few guides out there, but there’s a key missing step required with the current Git releases for the simple publish-over-SSH-clone-over-HTTP model.

On the server, run the following commands in the directory which you want to contain the repository after changing PROJECT to the actual name of the project:

mkdir PROJECT.git 
cd PROJECT.git
git --bare init 
git update-server-info -f
chmod +x hooks/post-update 

The -f options for update-server-info appears to now be necessary the first time you update the repository (subsequent pushes seem fine without it). None of the guides I found with a quick search used it so I assume it changed at some point fairly recently.

You can now publish to this repository over SSH:

git push server:path/to/PROJECT.git master

At this point your collaborators can clone the repository:

git clone http://server/path/to/PROJECT.git

Note: if you do this often, add it as a remote so you can simply push to a convenient name (replacing PROJECT_HTTP_NAME with whatever’s memorable to you):

git remote add PROJECT_HTTP_NAME host:path/to/PROJECT.git